I would think watching 50 first dates would have an adverse effect on one's grey matter.
Have you actually watched it, or do you say that about all chick flicks*? You must have really hated "Thelma and Louise," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
*There's no 100% definition of a "chick flick", but they exist, same as "guy movies" do, same as the Wii is a "chick console", and the XBox and PS3 are "guy consoles".
While you, I am sure, are only posting the kinds of messages that are well received by the/crowd
No - I get lots of posts that are modded down to oblivion. I was one of the first to rag on Ubuntu and Canonical when everyone else thought they were the next "great Linux hope", for example. Just like I'm one of the more vocal voices against RMS and his stupidity (and the damage he does to open source).
However, unlike you, many of my posts are seen as offering more than your silly rants - I back up mine with facts rather than your schizoid fantasies.
Try watching "50 First Dates" to see what happens when your brain doesn't change from what you experience. Or "Groundhog Day", where the rest of the world doesn't change...
Well, at least this time you remembered to check the "post anonymously" box.
Still, your zealotry still makes you a freetard... you can go back to sucking RMS's...um... cheesy toes or something. The rest of us will continue to live in the real world.
But it is deeper than that. It's about Novell working with MS in principle... Once a company is tainted by working with the likes of Microsoft or say Oracle, that's it.
Linus Torvalds has said he has no problems working with MS or any other company. As he put it, "Microsoft hatred is a disease".
I'm a big believer in "technology over politics". I don't care who it comes from, as long as there are solid reasons for the code, and as long as we don't have to worry about licensing etc issues. I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. I believe in open development, and that very much involves not just making the source open, but also not shutting other people and companies out. There are 'extremists' in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do 'free software' any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.
"extremists" - in other words, freetards like RMS, and, evidently, you. Sad, really.
âoeI agree that itâ(TM)s driven by selfish reasons, but thatâ(TM)s how all open source code gets written! We all âoescratch our own itchesâ. Itâ(TM)s why I started Linux, itâ(TM)s why I started git, and itâ(TM)s why I am still involved. Itâ(TM)s the reason for everybody to end up in open source, to some degree.
So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. Thatâ(TM)s the point of open source â" the ability to make the code better for your particular needs, whoever the âyourâ(TM) in question happens to be.
Does anybody complain when hardware companies write drivers for the hardware they produce? No. That would be crazy. Does anybody complain when IBM funds all the POWER development, and works on enterprise features because they sell into the enterprise? No. That would be insane.
So the people who complain about Microsoft writing drivers for their own virtualization model should take a long look in the mirror and ask themselves why they are being so hypocritical.â
So, since Linus cooperates with Microsoft (even the SAMBA team is now taking patches from Microsoft), what OS are you going to switch to? OSX? They've cooperated with Microsoft in the past. Plan9? Won't you be running that on Intel? Intel cooperates with Microsoft. And Microsoft is now working with ARM...
I guess it's time for you to stop being a hypocrite and go on eBay to look for an old Atari800, since ALL Linux, and all current hardware, is "contaminated" by Microsoft. Let us know how that works out for you with your 8k of ram (48k max)... oops - Atari BASIC by Microsoft. Sorry. Guess you'll have to stop using computers entirely now.
Novell got Microsoft to pay them a big wad of cash and also got Microsoft to encourage companies to install Linux.
Don't you wish every distro could pull off that sort of deal?
Or is it only okay if it's Canonical trying to pull the same sort of deal "give us money and encourage people to use our distro" with Ubuntu and hardware manufacturers?
Yay, someone spent 8 months on something that didn't even work properly the last time they released it. Let me guess: more drivers removed, more cloud, facebook and twitter, more compact touchscreen UI gadgets that are completely irrelevant to the increasingly common monitor format known as HD to those of us that acually own a desktop workstation Wich distro will be the first to only include drivers for hardware less than 12 months old and call it a 'feature'?
Sorry, but you want the "Trolling Ubuntu" articles. Though with the damage Unity has done, no need to troll - it will disappear by itself.
or else most websites will move to a paywall approach
No - most websites would revert to display ads that don't include tracking. Those that can't sustain themselves on that will just thin the herd, making the rest more viable.
I think you missed my main point - "How many people will pay up a few bucks rather than have their insurance premiums go through the roof, or even become unable to get insurance."
Even an unsuccessful claim by the **AAfia" would risk raising your premiums, since there are costs involved in the insurance company having to defend itself when sued.
anyone can come by and take a gander, and nobody in their right mind would stop someone from saying, "Oh, I'm in front of that corner house with the white picket fence, so I must be 4 blocks away from where I want to go." - which is, essentially, all Google is doing.
You can look - but only for a limited time - while walking by. Loitering is illegal in most places. You also can't start recording everything that's going on and storing it in a database for future use. The use of an access point that's located indoors should not be google's business.
Maybe we'll combat that by having people across the country start exchanging SSIDs and MAC addresses at random (it's not like MAC addresses are even unique when it comes to cheap consumer-brand routers and even NICs, and they can be spoofed, or just re-flash it).
You seem to think that people who do that stuff for a living are just as stupid about it as average person is about targeted marketing.
I don't confuse evil with stupid:-)
And it doesn't matter in the long run, because eventually both the laws and people's expectations will change, and targeted advertising will die.
understanding them for what they really represent - a massive decline in average consumers that will be seeing their ads, just as you conclude yourself.
That's happening anyway. As more browsers get ad-blocking, as more people use proxies that filter ads out, as more people become "ad-blind" (and yes, it's real - what advertisers fail to understand is the biological basis for vision. Those ads are mostly filtered out by the optic nerve, same as most of what hits the retina - they never register on the brain, so they don't "build brand presence.").
When's the last time you clicked on an ad? I've unblocked ads on slashdot (I find it interesting to see what's being pushed, so I actually LOOK for the ads - they're good for a laugh), and I've clicked on a total of ONE, from IBM. And I think that was something like 4 years ago...
Other sites? None. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Aucune. "Click on zee ad? Pourquoi, c'est la merde, eet ees the sh*t, non?"
They're going to have to go back to simple display ads, no targeting, but I expect them to embrace that about as much as politicians will embrace a law that makes them liable for lying, or perps a bill that holds them financially and criminally responsible for fraudulently-marketed CDOs and SIVs.
as it will present massive losses to advertisers to respect it.
It depends on how opt-in is marketed.
It can represent massive SAVINGS to advertisers, since they won't be wasting time and energy on tracking people. So they'll go to the easier and cheaper "cost per view" model, where their ads are displayed w/o any tracking code. Of course, the companies who SELL the invasive advertising models (google, yahoo, microsoft, facebook) won't be happy, since that means less ad revenue. Tough!
Without user tracking and the whole "serve up relevant ads" mess, instead of them (and everyone else) trying to target the same "perfect customer", advertisers could actually pick up new customers, since ads w/o targeting and tracking will be seen by a wider audience.
The problem is that the companies selling targeted advertising won't be able to make as much money on general display ads, so of course they will continue to push invading your privacy - and it's obvious that the W3C is infested with these cockroaches.
Honestly, if facebook, google, yahoo, and bing disappeared tomorrow, life would not end. So you'd have to use your own email (or if you wanted webmail, find someone with a domain who's willing to host webmail for you for a couple of bucks). Big deal. Search? People actually found stuff on their own or through friends before google, you know...:-)
You miss the REAL point - that if they can get people to think that insurers are liable for copyright infringement fines, the next step is to sue you, and then go after your insurance policy to pay the damages... after all, your insurer probably has deeper pockets than you do.
How many people will pay up a few bucks rather than have their insurance premiums go through the roof, or even become unable to get insurance.
1. **AAfia sues their own insurers to cover copyright violations.
2. **AAfia sues your insurers to cover copyright violations.
3. Re-invest those PROFITS in more cocaine and hookers (aka business as normal) for lobbyists, etc.
It's because they don't want you to track what THEY are doing.
Calling this "do not track" is like... well, like pretty much all those other misnamed initiatives.
Eventually, we'll all just have to set up a random generator that routes all over the place, uses auto-generated bogus email accounts, and randomly clicks on tons of ads - when it gets to the point that invasive targeted ads are worse than plain display ads with no tracking, they'll drop the tracking.
I could never figure out why people would pay almost the same price for "watery" skim milk "to reduce their fat intake", then go and buy butter. Kind of like buying a diet coke and a i-kilo bag of Fudgeos
The problem with the ultra-filtered milk is that infants don't have a completely formed gullet, and there's some cross-over of cow fat molcules into the bloodstream (heck, even adults can get the same "leaky" effect by taking and aspirin). The surface of the fat is a foreign object, so the body's immune system kicks in to deal with it. No problem so far...
... except that the molecule has some portion that looks a lot like the beta cells that produce insulin, so hello juvenile diabetes.
The solution, obviously, is to breast feed - but the dairy association was promoting the "health benefits" of cows milk. Just like the tobacco industry promoted the "healthy benefits of increased alertness and weight loss" of smoking.
The most dangerous anti-fat lie was the one that got mothers to (a) switch from whole milk to skim milk for their kids, and (b) using "ultra-filtered milk" for infants.
Growing brains need fat - too little fat leads to... oh-oh, NOW we know why everyone is stupid!
The dangers of ultra-filtered milk, where the fats are passed through a much finer mesh than in homogenization, just increase the chances of cow fat molecules entering the blood stream - welcome to a generation that is going to have even more auto-immune diseases.
Reminds me of the sloppy joes, cook the meat, slap it in a bun, fry the bun in the grease. When I was a kid, I used to make them for the whole family. Lots of calories, but in those days we actually went outside to play, so we burned them off.
You attacked me with a lie, I proved you were a liar, and look at the response... pretty long. Welcome to Troll Tuesday, where it's okay to jerk the chain of someone who lies, then tries the lame "look - wookies!" defense.:-p
Judaism doesn't have a central "pope" or such, there are many communities and schools of belief. But I don't know of any that would eat pork prepared or raised by any means.
All the jews I know eat pork. Bacon and eggs, etc... even if they do observe the high holidays.
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Have you actually watched it, or do you say that about all chick flicks*? You must have really hated "Thelma and Louise," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
*There's no 100% definition of a "chick flick", but they exist, same as "guy movies" do, same as the Wii is a "chick console", and the XBox and PS3 are "guy consoles".
No - I get lots of posts that are modded down to oblivion. I was one of the first to rag on Ubuntu and Canonical when everyone else thought they were the next "great Linux hope", for example. Just like I'm one of the more vocal voices against RMS and his stupidity (and the damage he does to open source).
However, unlike you, many of my posts are seen as offering more than your silly rants - I back up mine with facts rather than your schizoid fantasies.
Here's a suggestion ... prove the bribes. Lockheed was fined for bribery. It's a criminal activity. So, either prove the bribes or move on.
So, it's essentially worth less than a pack of gum.
Try watching "50 First Dates" to see what happens when your brain doesn't change from what you experience. Or "Groundhog Day", where the rest of the world doesn't change ...
Well, at least this time you remembered to check the "post anonymously" box.
Still, your zealotry still makes you a freetard ... you can go back to sucking RMS's ...um ... cheesy toes or something. The rest of us will continue to live in the real world.
What I did do was point out that even Linus thinks freetards need to grow up, take a bath, and stop hating on the competition.
Linus Torvalds has said he has no problems working with MS or any other company. As he put it, "Microsoft hatred is a disease".
"extremists" - in other words, freetards like RMS, and, evidently, you. Sad, really.
And further, here:
So, since Linus cooperates with Microsoft (even the SAMBA team is now taking patches from Microsoft), what OS are you going to switch to? OSX? They've cooperated with Microsoft in the past. Plan9? Won't you be running that on Intel? Intel cooperates with Microsoft. And Microsoft is now working with ARM ...
I guess it's time for you to stop being a hypocrite and go on eBay to look for an old Atari800, since ALL Linux, and all current hardware, is "contaminated" by Microsoft. Let us know how that works out for you with your 8k of ram (48k max)... oops - Atari BASIC by Microsoft. Sorry. Guess you'll have to stop using computers entirely now.
Novell got Microsoft to pay them a big wad of cash and also got Microsoft to encourage companies to install Linux.
Don't you wish every distro could pull off that sort of deal?
Or is it only okay if it's Canonical trying to pull the same sort of deal "give us money and encourage people to use our distro" with Ubuntu and hardware manufacturers?
Sorry, but you want the "Trolling Ubuntu" articles. Though with the damage Unity has done, no need to troll - it will disappear by itself.
No - most websites would revert to display ads that don't include tracking. Those that can't sustain themselves on that will just thin the herd, making the rest more viable.
I think you missed my main point - "How many people will pay up a few bucks rather than have their insurance premiums go through the roof, or even become unable to get insurance."
Even an unsuccessful claim by the **AAfia" would risk raising your premiums, since there are costs involved in the insurance company having to defend itself when sued.
You can look - but only for a limited time - while walking by. Loitering is illegal in most places. You also can't start recording everything that's going on and storing it in a database for future use. The use of an access point that's located indoors should not be google's business.
Maybe we'll combat that by having people across the country start exchanging SSIDs and MAC addresses at random (it's not like MAC addresses are even unique when it comes to cheap consumer-brand routers and even NICs, and they can be spoofed, or just re-flash it).
I don't confuse evil with stupid :-)
And it doesn't matter in the long run, because eventually both the laws and people's expectations will change, and targeted advertising will die.
That's happening anyway. As more browsers get ad-blocking, as more people use proxies that filter ads out, as more people become "ad-blind" (and yes, it's real - what advertisers fail to understand is the biological basis for vision. Those ads are mostly filtered out by the optic nerve, same as most of what hits the retina - they never register on the brain, so they don't "build brand presence.").
When's the last time you clicked on an ad? I've unblocked ads on slashdot (I find it interesting to see what's being pushed, so I actually LOOK for the ads - they're good for a laugh), and I've clicked on a total of ONE, from IBM. And I think that was something like 4 years ago ...
Other sites? None. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Aucune. "Click on zee ad? Pourquoi, c'est la merde, eet ees the sh*t, non?"
They're going to have to go back to simple display ads, no targeting, but I expect them to embrace that about as much as politicians will embrace a law that makes them liable for lying, or perps a bill that holds them financially and criminally responsible for fraudulently-marketed CDOs and SIVs.
While it may not affect Doom3, it *could* affect anyone else using code from the open-source version for anything else. Better safe than sorry, hmm?
It depends on how opt-in is marketed.
It can represent massive SAVINGS to advertisers, since they won't be wasting time and energy on tracking people. So they'll go to the easier and cheaper "cost per view" model, where their ads are displayed w/o any tracking code. Of course, the companies who SELL the invasive advertising models (google, yahoo, microsoft, facebook) won't be happy, since that means less ad revenue. Tough!
Without user tracking and the whole "serve up relevant ads" mess, instead of them (and everyone else) trying to target the same "perfect customer", advertisers could actually pick up new customers, since ads w/o targeting and tracking will be seen by a wider audience.
The problem is that the companies selling targeted advertising won't be able to make as much money on general display ads, so of course they will continue to push invading your privacy - and it's obvious that the W3C is infested with these cockroaches.
Honestly, if facebook, google, yahoo, and bing disappeared tomorrow, life would not end. So you'd have to use your own email (or if you wanted webmail, find someone with a domain who's willing to host webmail for you for a couple of bucks). Big deal. Search? People actually found stuff on their own or through friends before google, you know ... :-)
You miss the REAL point - that if they can get people to think that insurers are liable for copyright infringement fines, the next step is to sue you, and then go after your insurance policy to pay the damages ... after all, your insurer probably has deeper pockets than you do.
How many people will pay up a few bucks rather than have their insurance premiums go through the roof, or even become unable to get insurance.
1. **AAfia sues their own insurers to cover copyright violations.
2. **AAfia sues your insurers to cover copyright violations.
3. Re-invest those PROFITS in more cocaine and hookers (aka business as normal) for lobbyists, etc.
Calling this "do not track" is like ... well, like pretty much all those other misnamed initiatives.
Eventually, we'll all just have to set up a random generator that routes all over the place, uses auto-generated bogus email accounts, and randomly clicks on tons of ads - when it gets to the point that invasive targeted ads are worse than plain display ads with no tracking, they'll drop the tracking.
Not tracking should be the default, and you should have to opt in to tracking.
I could never figure out why people would pay almost the same price for "watery" skim milk "to reduce their fat intake", then go and buy butter. Kind of like buying a diet coke and a i-kilo bag of Fudgeos
The problem with the ultra-filtered milk is that infants don't have a completely formed gullet, and there's some cross-over of cow fat molcules into the bloodstream (heck, even adults can get the same "leaky" effect by taking and aspirin). The surface of the fat is a foreign object, so the body's immune system kicks in to deal with it. No problem so far ...
The solution, obviously, is to breast feed - but the dairy association was promoting the "health benefits" of cows milk. Just like the tobacco industry promoted the "healthy benefits of increased alertness and weight loss" of smoking.
It's all about money. And that's sad.
The most dangerous anti-fat lie was the one that got mothers to (a) switch from whole milk to skim milk for their kids, and (b) using "ultra-filtered milk" for infants.
Growing brains need fat - too little fat leads to ... oh-oh, NOW we know why everyone is stupid!
The dangers of ultra-filtered milk, where the fats are passed through a much finer mesh than in homogenization, just increase the chances of cow fat molecules entering the blood stream - welcome to a generation that is going to have even more auto-immune diseases.
Reminds me of the sloppy joes, cook the meat, slap it in a bun, fry the bun in the grease. When I was a kid, I used to make them for the whole family. Lots of calories, but in those days we actually went outside to play, so we burned them off.
You attacked me with a lie, I proved you were a liar, and look at the response ... pretty long. Welcome to Troll Tuesday, where it's okay to jerk the chain of someone who lies, then tries the lame "look - wookies!" defense. :-p
Another freetard bites the dust.
All the jews I know eat pork. Bacon and eggs, etc... even if they do observe the high holidays.
You might have to read it a couple of times ...